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Job Shop vs. Flow Shop in Manufacturing

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Flow shops excel at low-mix, high-volume production, and large order volumes that require items identical in form and function. Sectors such as automotive fabrication, consumer electronics manufacturing, and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) often use flow shop layouts.

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

Manoj K Sundaram, Carl Zeiss India : India’s machine tools industry, including the metal cutting and forming sectors, form the backbone of the country’s manufacturing sector. Almost all our offering of measurement solutions follows the processes just beyond Metal cutting and Forming machines.

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Discrete Manufacturing Guide

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Since each step in the discrete manufacturing process is distinct from those before and after, this approach is often used to create complex, multipart products for automotive, aerospace, electronics and consumer goods applications. They utilize multistage assembly processes, each taking varying amounts of time to complete.